AMD is preparing a consumer-grade processor with 16 cores and support for four-channel DDR4

POSTER:computer news || AMD IS PREPARING A CONSUMER-GRADE PROCESSOR WITH 16 CORES AND SUPPORT FOR FOUR-CHANNEL DDR4

DATE:2017-03-18

The last weeks Asian forums are actively discussing the mysterious AMD platform for enthusiasts, which approximately by June this year will offer processors with 16 cores and 32 threads, capable of working with four-channel memory such as DDR4. If you consider that the processor that is not inferior to the characteristics of Naples should be released in the second quarter, this is not surprising, but this solution will be offered not only to the owners of servers and workstations, but also to fans of digital entertainment.

Sources express confidence that by then AMD and software developers will solve the "octopus problem" with insufficient efficiency of using all cores and threads with new processors with Zen architecture. Sixteen cores in the consumer segment is, after all, an application for dominance in strictly defined test disciplines. In addition, this is a kind of AMD response to the release of Intel X299 platform, which will host the Skylake-X and Kaby Lake-X processors. It is rumored that among the first there can be a processor with 12 physical cores.

In order not to get lost in the positioning of the new platform, AMD even assigned a schipset with an obvious hint of superiority over competitor - "X399". The processor socket for such processors will be also unusual, for LGA performance, which is familiar to AMD server processors, but did not become familiar in the consumer sector. The company has some experience adapting server processors for use in the desktop segment - it's enough to recall the dual-processor platform Quad Father or 4x4 , which was discussed more than ten years ago. Simply, now the technological capabilities allow AMD to place 16 cores in one processor, and this will somewhat simplify the layout of the system.